Saturday is always beach day here, it seems, but we wanted to go to a new beach. We had gone out Thursday to this nice ocean front club, so we decided that was the beach we wanted to go to and decided to go to Condado again. We figured out the bus to get there and got to this really ritzy touristy place and went to the beach there. It was so nice but there were a lot of guys there in speedos with their "partners." They had a beautiful boardwalk and scenery and we got some awesome pictures. We decided to eat at this burger place that the guys on Thursday told us about, and it was the funniest thing. We go into the house-type building and it's kind of empty with random couches, chairs, weird artwork and a ping pong table. After walking through, we came out to a patio where two guys were grilling burgers. They were sooo funny; they were like legitimate surfer dudes and they were from America. The guy cursed when we came out of the house and said "we have a fry situation," meaning the potato cutter they use to cut the fries was broken, so he had to cut the potatoes himself. Then, I asked the other guy what he recommended, and he said muenster cheese on the 4 oz. burger. When I told him I wanted pepperjack, he looked at me and said "so... not the muenster?" He looked so annoyed that I asked his opinion and didn't take it. There were also a bunch of different guys skate boarding in and out of the restaurant and one of them skateboarded to get our drinks from the store. It was just the most random thing.
Later that night, we wanted to go out to our teacher's town again, but a cab was $96 and the driver actually recommended us to rent a car because it's cheaper, so we did. We took the bus to the airport and got a car and drove to Utuado through a bunch of hills. Our friends were giving us directions on the way, and told us to keep going straight when we were supposed to turn, sending us down this really creepy narrow road. Our friend who was driving, Abby, started freaking out and thinking of car jacking stories and wouldn't stop the car. She swung around for a u-turn and she drove like a bat out of hell back down the hill hitting basically all the pot holes. Finally, we found our way there. We went to the chinchorrito, the hole in the wall place, for dancing and also for the pinchos, or shish kabobs. I mostly hung out with the guy who owns the little shish kabob tent because he has this Mexican salsa I like and since I help him flip the kabobs, he gives me free bread. Writing that sentence just made me feel like a bird. Anyways, I hung out with the people around there and when a Salsa or Bachata song that came on, I found someone to dance with since those were dances I learned back in the states. Everyone was really nice and at the end of the night, they paid for us to get a hotel so we didn't have to drive back late. They were like nice little condos, like the ones we stayed in the last weekend. When we woke up though to find our friends staying in the other room, they were gone and so was their car. We started freaking out and had to walk down this really steep hill to get to the main road to try and find our way to the Grandma's house we knew. When we got to the bottom, I asked a man with his golf cart for directions, but he totally ignored me and continued up the steep hill we just came down. When he parked it at the top though, the brakes totally gave out and the golf cart came zooming down the hill and we had to jump out of the way as the cart crossed the street and went straight into a jungle like ditch. It was the most hilarious thing I had ever seen in my life and we almost peed our pants. Think of the scene where the jungle swallows the car in Jumanji and that's what it was like. Anyways, we decided to just walk down the road to ask the gas station for directions, and our friend's car was parked there. We were so happy to see them, and they thought we were nuts for thinking they'd leave. They were just getting some snacks for breakfast. So we packed up our things and decided to get a real breakfast in town at a real Puerto Rican place. We went to this small cafe and got churrasco, or a type of steak, tostones, which are fried plantains, rice and beans. It was all really good and afterwards we took our rental car back home and of course stopped at the outlet mall on the way and did some grocery shopping before returning it.
This weekend was full of hilarious times all because we decided to rent a car and go out of town on a whim, but we had a blast. Tomorrow, we start teaching full time so it's time to get back into work mode and be teachers.
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